Romancing the Blarney Stone

The authenticity of the Blarney Stone, kissed by about 400,000 tourists a year, has been questioned by Mark Samuel, an archaeologist and architectural historian, and Kate Hamlyn in a new book.


Have all those people kissed the stone, and it wasn't even the right stone?

When I was in Ireland I saw the Blarney Stone but did not kiss it being the germaphobe that I am. People kiss that and then you kiss it. Blech. You have to pay, too. And lean over backwards. By kissing the stone, people believe you get the "gift of gab". If I were shy, that would be one thing. But I'm not.


Source: AFP

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